Lead Software Development Engineer - Shared Platforms

Capital One; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strong career progression

Generous holiday entitlement

Private medical insurance

Open-plan workspaces

Subsidised restaurant

Job summary

Capital One is hiring a Lead Software Development Engineer in Nottingham. This role involves leading engineering teams to design and develop software features, ensuring high performance and security in cloud-based projects. You will be responsible for implementing solutions and driving best practices across teams.

The position offers a hybrid working model with three days in the office, excellent career progression opportunities, and a range of core and flexible benefits including medical insurance.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of designing secure, high-performance architectures at scale.
• Exceptional programming skills in modern OO languages, preferably Java.
• Experience with Spring and Spring Boot.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team or cross-functional engineering team to design and develop software features.
• Work with stakeholders to understand product direction and translate requirements.
• Drive engineering best practices and set standards across the team.

Skills

Designing secure, high-performance architectures

Programming skills in Java

Building APIs

Cloud-based projects

Experience with CI/CD tools

Familiarity with OpenTelemetry

Effective communication

Advocacy for quality

Tools

Spring

Spring Boot

AWS

Jenkins

JUnit

Mockito

Job description

About this role

Capital One is a leading technology company that is changing banking for good by bringing humanity, ingenuity and simplicity to banking. In this role you will serve as a Lead Software Development Engineer – Shared Platforms in our Nottingham office, contributing to the development of applications and solutions that support our software and infrastructure delivery teams.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team or cross‑functional engineering team to design, enable and develop software features that support the delivery of software and services within your delivery domain.
• Work with engineering leads, stakeholders and the enterprise to understand product direction and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Take end‑to‑end responsibility for technical design, implementation and operational considerations.
• Drive engineering best practices (Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards across the team and wider engineering teams.
• Innovate and identify opportunities to simplify and remove friction for engineers throughout the SDLC.
• Enable platforms and enablement teams to offer solutions that increase productivity and reduce friction.
• Build stronger partnerships between Product Engineering, senior engineering and the Enterprise.

Qualifications

• Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of designing secure, high‑performance architectures at scale.
• Exceptional programming skills and knowledge of building APIs using modern OO languages, preferably Java, and SOLID principles, SOA, HTTP and REST.
• Experience with Spring and Spring Boot.
• Proficiency in cloud‑based projects, particularly with AWS, and in software engineering best practices.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito).
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, data lakes and observability products (metrics, traces, logs, Go).
• Effective communication across engineering teams to maximize inner‑sourcing opportunities and reduce waste.
• Proven ability to deliver high‑quality applications at scale.
• Advocacy for quality and support for practices such as Pair Programming, TDD, and BDD.

Where and how you’ll work

This is a permanent position based in our Nottingham office with a hybrid working model: three days in office (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) and the flexibility to work from home.

Benefits

• Strong career progression supported by Capital One University training programmes.
• Core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance.
• Flexible benefits such as season‑ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme and enhanced parental leave.
• Open‑plan workspaces and facilities designed to inspire and support you, including a fully‑serviced gym, subsidised restaurant and dedicated development resources.

Equal Opportunity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact [e-mail].